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Adam D. Smith
As a Quantitative Ecologist with the United States Fish & Wildlife Service Inventory and Monitoring Program, I provide ecological inventory and monitoring design and analytical assistance to the roughly 130 National Wildlife Refuges. In addition, I engage in diverse partnerships with conservation and resource management agencies and organizations to support a research program built around modern quantitative tools and approaches to understand the ecology and conservation of migratory animals. Most of my active projects are collaborative and integrate digitally-coded telemetry or GPS logging technology to answer landscape and local scale questions relevant to conservation and management. I am an open science advocate.
Education
Ph.D., Environmental Science (avian ecology focus)
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI
2013
- Thesis: Migration and stopover ecology of songbirds and bats along a major ecological barrier
M.S., Raptor Biology
Boise State University
Boise, ID
2006
- Thesis: Exploring raptor migration using stable isotope analysis: the Northern Goshawk in western North America
B.S., Wildlife Biology
Murray State University
Murray, KY
2000
Professional Experience
Quantitative Ecologist
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services
Athens, GA
2020 - 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI
2015 - 2013
Research Associate
University of Florida
N/A
2008
Avian Research Technician II/III
Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
Frankfort, KY
2007 - 2005
Research Assistant
Kentucky Gap Analysis Project
Murray, KY
2001 - 1999
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Publications
Multimorbidity Explorer | A shiny app for exploring EHR and biobank data
RStudio::conf 2019
N/A
2019
Taking a network view of EHR and Biobank data to find explainable multivariate patterns
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Seminar Series
N/A
2019
Patient-specific risk factors independently influence survival in Myelodysplastic Syndromes in an unbiased review of EHR records
Under-Review (copy available upon request.)
N/A
2019
Patient specific comorbidities impact overall survival in myelofibrosis
Under-Review (copy available upon request.)
N/A
2019
R timelineViz: Visualizing the distribution of study events in longitudinal studies
Under-Review (copy available upon request.)
N/A
2018
Continuous Classification using Deep Neural Networks
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Qualification Exam
N/A
2017
Asymmetric Linkage Disequilibrium: Tools for Dissecting Multiallelic LD
Journal of Human Immunology
N/A
2015
An Agent Based Model of Mysis Migration
International Association of Great Lakes Research Conference
N/A
2015
Declines of Mysis diluviana in the Great Lakes
Journal of Great Lakes Research
N/A
2015
Grants
Asterisks (*) indicate I was integral to project development, design, and implementation, but not an official PI due to institutional policies.
Local and post-breeding movements of Painted Buntings associated with molt
Carolina Bird Club
N/A
2019
- co-PI with Aaron Given (Town of Kiawah Island, SC)
- $3,500
*Evaluating the use of autonomous recording units (ARUs) to survey Black Rails
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services
N/A
2018
- PI Susan McRae (East Carolina University)
- $19,715
*Inventory and assessment of secretive marshbirds: using eDNA to determine occupancy with a focus on Eastern Black Rail and King Rail
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services
N/A
2017
- PI Susan McRae (East Carolina University)
- $27,352
*Black Rail ecology to inform effective survey design and support population modelling
U.S. Geological Survey
N/A
2016
- PI Clint Moore (U.S. Geological Survey)
- $172,907
Secretive marsh bird surveys on southeastern National Wildlife Refuges
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services
N/A
2016
- co-PI with Whitney Biessler (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)
- $92,700
Seasonal connectivity of MacGillivray’s Seaside Sparrow
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services
N/A
2016
- co-PI with Aaron Given (Town of Kiawah Island, SC)
- $11,750
*Seasonal connectivity of MacGillivray’s Seaside Sparrrow
Carolina Bird Club
N/A
2016
- co-PI with Aaron Given (Town of Kiawah Island, SC)
- $4,800
*Automated telemetry monitoring of migratory birds
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services
N/A
2014
- PI Scott McWilliams (University of Rhode Island)
- $7,426
*Acoustic monitoring of migrating bats and birds of Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuges
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services
N/A
2010
- PI Scott McWilliams (University of Rhode Island)
- $33,038
*Rapid assessment of fruits available to songbirds during fall migration
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services
N/A
2008
- PI Scott McWilliams (University of Rhode Island)
- $9,276
*Migratory connectivity: linking raptors to their breeding areas
Idaho Department of Fish & Game
N/A
2002
- PI Al Dufty (Boise State University)
- $17,900
Frank M. Chapman Memorial Research Grant
American Museum of Natural History
N/A
2002
E. Alexander Bergstrom Memorial Research Award
Association of Field Ornithologists
N/A
2002
Presentations
Teaching Experience
Improving your visualization in Python
DataCamp
N/A
2019
Advanced Statistical Learning and Inference
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department
Nashville, TN
2018 - 2017
Statistical Computing in R
Vanderbilt Biostatistics Department
Nashville, TN
2017
Head Teaching Assistant
Boise State University
Boise, ID
2004
Teaching Assistant
Boise State University
Boise, ID
2003 - 2001